From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: p.pisati@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, peppe.cavallaro@st.com, kristoffer@gaisler.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac address
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:20:37 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121023.132037.2010164496712539552.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351012533-3524-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com>
From: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:15:27 +0200
> In the past drivers grew mechanism to set their own mac address at boot time
> via (usually) a module parameter. Unfortunately every single driver had its
> own naming/implementation and it soon became clear that a generic
> mechanism was needed.
>
> Introduce "macaddr=", a new kernel parameter to set MAC address using
> netdevice ops (and hence being hardware independent).
Sorry, no, no module parameters.
Run time setting is the only reasonable way to set the MAC address
explicitly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-23 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-23 17:15 [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac address Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] macaddr kernel bootargs implementation Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] stmmac: remove mac address handling as a module parameter Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] ksz884x: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] greth: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] sunhme: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] fec: " Paolo Pisati
2012-10-23 17:20 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-10-24 8:07 ` [PATCH 0/6] kernel parameters: introduce "macaddr" to set mac address Paolo Pisati
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